There's been a ton of crazy stuff going on lately with basketball players going European. We had Brandon Jennings spurn Arizona for Europe, Josh Childress go Greek, LeBron say he'd consider Europe, and Kobe say the same thing. We also have seen several foreign NBA players return to Europe this off-season where they're [...]
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Obviously the "JJ" nickname was ridiculous, but try to remember that you don't have to be that great to be the Jewish Jordan.
i was going to school in the area then and we played a tournament where he was,in the midst of all the hype and he just wasn't that good. he could shoot the lights out but beyond that he was never anything special. His performance at Towson really showed his lack of big time school potential.
Of course none of this means that he can't have gotten much better overseas and might be a decent or even good player now.